Some of our new developers have //SYSMDUMP DD SYSOUT=* in their JCL. Mark Jacobs
Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, April 16th, 2021 at 12:30 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, back when AMDPRDMP was a thing, you could print a SYSMDUMP, but why > would you want to? Searching a large dump on SPOOL is a RPITA, and doing it > on paper is worse. Yes, IPCS has its faults, but it's so much nicer than the > older alternatives. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Peter Relson [[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:23 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Print a SYSMDUMP > > My answer, being nit-picky, is: no, you cannot print a SYSMDUMP, aside > > from printing the dump records themselves such as in hex but you can > > direct IPCS to write its output to a data set that you could then print, > > after doing whatever IPCS commands you have chosen to do. > > For example, from some old notes (and maybe there are better options now) > > Allocate data set IPCSPRNT with RECFM VBA LRECL 255 BLKSIZE 6144 or with > > RECFM VBA LRECL 137 BLKSIZE 27998 > > TSO ALLOC F(IPCSPRNT) DA(IPCSPRNT) > > IPCS SYSTRACE ALL print > > IPCS CTRACE COMP(SYSxxx) FULL print noterm > > IPCS Close Print > > Peter Relson > > z/OS Core Technology Design > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
